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Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Late at night. I shut off the television. To post & to bed

Just saw most of the second half of Unforgiveable Blackness, the televised biography of Jack Johnson. This was edited by Ken Burns, now one of the eminent American historians.

From The Book of Lists, I garner these facts on Mr. Jack Johnson: He fought from 1897 till 1945. He won the title from Tommy Burns in 1908(KO in 14 rounds). He lost the title to Jess Willard, ten years his junior, in 1915 ( KO in 26). He fought 113 fights. Won 44 of them by KO. 30 by decision, 4 by fouls, 14 draws, 14 no decision; lost 5 by KO, 1 by decision, 1 by foul.

I missed yesterday evening's showing of Burn's biography of Jack Johnson. I feel that I'll have to view it another time.

I have been in danger of burning the candle at both ends. These days, it is only my morning laziness, which lies with its promise of redemption through later action, which keeps me from losing the sleep I need to keep from falling off the edge into total insanity. And so I bid the Muse and Wakefulness good night. Here, o reader--take a torch to light the way.

You are the Gender Abolitionist type of feminist. This means that you
feel the best way to destroy patriarchal oppression is to rid ourselves
of misguided gender roles, and instead live in a society that does not
make such marked assumptions about gender differences. The Gender
Abolitionist is culturally radical, but rather conservative when it
comes to sexual liberation and politics. You have a strong sense of
human rights for all. In fact, you are actually a very moral person.
You don't see people in terms of gender and are thus very philosophical
in order to perceive the world in such a manner. You think people
shouldn't identify others in terms of gender. When most people see a
person, the first thing they think is "That person is a woman" or "That
person is a man", but they do NOT think "That person is a
short-fingernail". Most make someone's gender their IDENTITY, but
fingernail length would never be considered part of their identity. A
gender abolitionist would claim gender should be like fingernail
length--it shouldn't be part of someone's identity. By making gender a
part of identity, difference is emphasized and oppression is often
justified. Thus, gender shouldn't be regarded to such a large extent by
society. You are mostly concerned with seeing women become fully
equalized with men by eliminating gender roles, as these roles oppress
women.